Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] place " in BNC.

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1 His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship .
2 Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place .
3 The prizes at £75 for the winner , £50 for the runner-up and £25 for the third place .
4 ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work .
5 Corfu , with its long sandy beaches , clear blue water and verdant mountain backdrop was one of the first places in Greece to be ‘ discovered ’ .
6 The amount of rain that was falling made this sure to be one of the first places to flood , and though the cubs were growing fast , they were still too small to cope with flood conditions .
7 I think your G P is maybe one of the first places to go but the trouble , I think , with people with eating problems is it 's very hard to explain what the problem is .
8 In fact , when a hotel or catering establishment decided to update its kitchen equipment , one of the first places that is often targeted for changes is the method of cooking .
9 The old Signals Gallery , largely Medalla 's creation , was one of the last places where one found the undirected avant-guardism of post-war years .
10 In Thwaite Lane , at Hunslet , is the Thwaite Putty Mill , one of the last places in England to keep waterwheels in regular use .
11 Now , a great black car with tinted windows was taking up not only her place but part of the next place too .
12 I know , I know , 1 hear you say , this precious Boy of yours surely has no imagination if he is content with the first place he finds and the very first crowd of men that he runs across .
13 Walsham took the £1,000 stage prize from McKay and Norway 's Joergen Pettersen , with the next places going to Andrei Kivilev , of Kazakhstan , and Kovar .
14 Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable .
15 And in the fifth place … . ’
16 Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place .
17 Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ?
18 But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident .
19 It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs .
20 While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating .
21 ‘ Well , if he was repairing the machinery , it ca n't have been safe in the first place , can it ? ’
22 What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ?
23 That 's why I left SIS in the first place . ’
24 A re-check should never be necessary , since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place .
25 There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place .
26 They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place .
27 Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial :
28 Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) :
29 Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place .
30 Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it .
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